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MARIA MONTESSORI

BIOGRAPHY

Maria Montessori was born on August 31, 1870 in Chiaravalle, province of Ancona, Italy. She died on May 6, 1952 when she was 81 years of age. Montessori was an educator, paedagog, a doctor and a psychologist.

Her parents moved to Rome to access the best schools. Her father wanted her to study to become a teacher, but she decided to enter engineering school, which she left after one year when her interest in studying medicine arose, until finally, in 1896, she became the first female doctor in Italy.

She studied a speciality in nervous and mental diseases, which led her to work with children with intellectual disabilities. Living with them is how she realized that many of their problems were not only medical, but also paedagogical, and that is how she became interested in education.

She began to observe the behaviour of children with learning problems and to coexist with them daily. This experience led her to design educational materials that responded to their needs. With this material she managed that many children, who were considered "Ineducable", learned to read, write and count.

Years later, she adapted her method for regular students, beginning with students up to 6 years of age. Her philosophy was known throughout the country and it became the official method of teaching.

Over the years, her method has been expanding all over the world.

The Montessori method was initially applied in Italian primary schools and later throughout the world. Directed especially to children in the preschool stage.

She wrote some books and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize three times.

I admire Maria Montessori because she was an advanced woman for her time who fought for what she wanted, for her dedication to children's education and her method has continued along the years pass by.

books
Discovery of the Child (1909)
The Montessori method (1912)
My system of education (1915)
Spontaneous Activity in Education (1916)
The secret of childhood (1936)
Educate for a new world (1946)
The education of human potentialities (1946)

What You Should Know About Your Child (1948)
The absorbing mind of the child (1949)

Quotations

"The greatest instinct of children is precisely to free themselves from the adult."

"Help me do it by myself. "

"Any unnecessary help is an obstacle to development. "

"Movements are not just made simply by moving, each movement has its purpose, it always has some intention. "

"The biggest sign of a teacher's success is being able to say:" Now the children work as if I did not exist. "

"If you criticize a child a lot, he will learn to judge. If you praise the child regularly, he will learn to value. "

''The greatest instinct of children is precisely to free themselves from adults".